Critical Thinking Competency Rubric

Competency Attributes Performance Indicators

A1. Distinguishes between facts, opinions, interpretations, valuations and judgements.

Attribute A.
Questions his/her reality, analyzing
the facts, problems, lines of
reasoning, and judgements that try
to explain it; identifying their logic,
consistence, pertinence and
relevance.
A2. Identifies ideas, principles, models and values supporting judgements.
A3. Identifies the lack of consistency in lines of reasoning and judgements, detecting absences (due to
ignorance), omissions (intentionally), fallacies and lies.
A4. Identifies objectivity, validity, reliability, logic and ethics as criteria to produce arguments,
judgements, lines of reasoning and actions.

A5. Makes conclusions based on external and internal criteria.

Critical Thinking
B1. Supports judgments with arguments that are objective, valid, relevant, ethical, pertinent, and
Takes a critical and ethical reliable.
Attribute B.
stand on the facts, events,
Argues the objectivity, validity,
phenomena, speeches,
reliability, pertinence and ethics of B2. Evaluates arguments of others by establishing their validity, objectivity, reliability, relevance,
texts, lines of reasoning
the judgements and line of pertinence, and ethics.
and judgments faced.
reasoning produced.
B3. Builds arguments that allow him/her to stand for a critical position.

Attribute C.
Determines the level of acceptance,
rejection or modification of facts,
events, speeches, texts and
phenomena, through critical
analysis.
C1. Identifies the elements that allow him/her to accept, tolerate, reject or rebuild a fact, event, speech,
judgement or line of reasoning considering scientific criteria (objectivity, validity, reliability), logical
criteria (pertinence and relevance), and ethical criteria (universal, ethical and environmental values).
C2. Evaluates other people’s judgments identifying differences with their own, to determine
acceptance, tolerance, or rejection of those judgments.
C3. Identifies areas in need of improvement through learning from other judgments and lines of
reasoning, which are better supported.